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- Andrew Celentano

Two hours of sleep restored: Researchers make Alzheimer’s breakthrough

There’s a small fire isolated in your kitchen. If you had the right tool, you might be able to put it out. But before you can, the sprinklers turn on and flood your entire house. An automatic response to an issue has now damaged everything you own. That’s akin to what happens in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s: Amyloid plaques, sticky protein clumps that build up in the brain, are the fire in the kitchen. Microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, are the sprinklers. A mechanism designed to protect the body ends up hurting it.

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Poriferous, LLC Secures Patent for DuraBloc™ Technology

NEWNAN, Ga., July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Poriferous, LLC, a leading global manufacturer of SuᐧPor® craniomaxillofacial and patient-specific implants, has been awarded its patent for its innovative DuraBloc™ technology from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), U.S. Patent No. 12,653,677, issued on June 16, 2026.

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Can magnetic fields help fight Parkinson’s disease?

An international team has succeeded in using a magnetic field to target structures deep within the brain. The researchers injected magnetic nanoplatelets into the relevant region. By doing so, they succeeded in treating movement deficits in mice suffering from Parkinson’s-like symptoms.

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